Salil Chowdhury had originally composed the tune of this song for the Bengali non-film song "O Tui Nayan Pakhi Amaar Re" (1963) sung by Lata Mangeshkar. He used the same tune again for the Malayalam film song "Kannil Meenaadum" ("Neela Ponman", 1975) sung by B. Vasantha and S. Janaki.[1][2]